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Case Securities and Exchange Commission v. Tiger Asia Management, LLC, Tiger Asia Partners, LLC,

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Securities and Exchange Commission v. Tiger Asia Management, LLC, Tiger Asia Partners, LLC, Sung Kook (a/k/a BILL) Hwang & Raymond Y.H. Park

FEDERAL COURT IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
2012-264

This case is about insider trading, which was publicly released to by the Securities and Exchange Commission official website on December 12, 2012. Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang, the founder and portfolio manager of a New York based hedge fund, Tiger Asia Partners and Tiger Management, committed insider trading by short selling three Chinese bank stocks based on confidential information they received in private placement offerings. Hwang and his advisory firms then covered the short positions with private placement shares purchased at a significant …show more content…

Hwang agreed to those terms. However, he still ordered Park to make short sales in each stock in the days prior to the private placement. Hwang and his firms illegally profited by $16.2 million by using the discounted private placement shares they received to cover the short sales they had entered into based on inside information about the placements.

The SEC further alleges that on at least four occasions from November 2008 to February 2009, Hwang and his firms, with Park’s assistance, attempted to manipulate the month-end closing prices of Chinese bank stocks publicly listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. These stocks were among the largest short position holdings in the hedge funds’ portfolios. The more assets the hedge funds had under management, the greater the management fee that Tiger Asia Management was entitled to collect. So Hwang directed Park to place losing trades in order to depress the stock prices, which would inflate the calculation of the management fees. Hwang and Tiger Asia Management made approximately $496,000 in fraudulent management fees through this scheme.

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1. Who are the parties?

The Plaintiff in this case is U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. And the defendants are Tiger Asia Management, LLC, Tiger Asia Partners, LLC, Sung Kook Hwang (a/k/a BILL), and Raymond Y.H. Park (Tiger Asia Parties).

2. What laws are involved ‐ statutes and/or common law? What are the

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